Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

npr.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

321–330 of 1001 posts

Re: U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

#321

Post by joshuamcginnis »

dhruvkar wrote: post #47

Are there people here on HN that believe the election was stolen? I haven't seen any evidence, most of the lawsuits haven't borne fruit either. However, I also recognize that there may be blindspots/biases. I'd really like to hear from anyone who believes this, to present a cogent argument. I promise not to attack. I want to hear the argument from the other side. I also beseech the rest of HN to please refrain from a…

If you don't get a lot of responses, it isn't because those with cohesive arguments don't exists; it's because it has become increasingly dangerous to express views counter to the mainstream narrative.

Re: U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

#322

Post by adsche »

adsche wrote: post #55
TehCorwiz wrote: post #26

Where's the tear gas and rubber bullets? Where is the national guard? There was more police response for a fscking photo op!

Just heard on C-SPAN: "The Defense Department has just denied a request by DC officials to deploy the National Guard to the US Capitol." Source: Washington Post reporter https://twitter.com/byaaroncdavis/status/1346908166030766080

Update: White House says National Guard now dispatched: https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1346918582832168964

Re: U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

#323

Post by Merman_Mike »

tibbydudeza wrote: post #89

Guns has been drawn inside the barricaded senate chamber. https://missouriindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/g...

A woman has been shot inside the capitol building by Capitol Police.

Not going to post links, but there is video on Twitter.

Re: U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

#325

Post by ianleeclark »

th48 wrote: post #317

This is partly a result of the left steadfastly opposing measures to protect the integrity of US elections, including strong voter ID laws (which are common throughout the developed world) out of fear that such measures will somehow disenfranchise people who apparently can't even spare an hour at the DMV every few years and can't afford to pay the small processing fee ($9-13, in NY[1]) to get an id. As a non-voter, s…

Poor american left. When the right storms several capitol buildings, y'all're still the ones to bear the blame.

Re: U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

#326

Post by kevinventullo »

hertzrat wrote: post #260

Trump is a bad and scary man, but one of the only good things he's done is post this tweet: "I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!"

Also Trump: “Stand back and stand by.”

Re: U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

#327

Post by Simulacra »

umvi wrote: post #72

How did we arrive to this point where a huge chunk of the population is in one reality and another huge chunk of the population is in another reality? Segregation of information sources? Politicization of media outlets? Self-reinforcing social bubbles? A combination of all of them and more?

Political manipulation of the people with the acquiescence and support of corporate-dominated mass media, all driven by profit.

Re: U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

#328

Post by aigen001 »

f430 wrote: post #38
alasdair_ wrote: post #5

Is there ANY credible evidence of fraud, anywhere? Or are people protesting solely because they trust Trump?

There definitely appears to be people on camera admitting to committing a serious felony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txXfT2nLJ-w I don't think this is a Trump/Biden issue like it has been made out to be. If there are claims of election fraud, then let's see the evidence and release the audit of Dominion voting machines which many people laid down their professional lives to back the claims of election fraud.

Project Veritas should not be treated as a credible source.

The Georgia election official has debunked these claims. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEYvOTvqlFs

Re: U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

#329

Post by moosey »

dhruvkar wrote: post #47

Are there people here on HN that believe the election was stolen? I haven't seen any evidence, most of the lawsuits haven't borne fruit either. However, I also recognize that there may be blindspots/biases. I'd really like to hear from anyone who believes this, to present a cogent argument. I promise not to attack. I want to hear the argument from the other side. I also beseech the rest of HN to please refrain from a…

A person can believe anything they want.

If there were evidence of a stolen election, then Trump would have won a number of court cases from one of the MANY judges, mostly ... well, conservative, to use a label ... that he placed his cases in front of.

Anyone can look at these cases and have an understanding of the actual evidence presented, and see, objectively, that there was not significant election or voter tampering, and definitely not significant enough to change the election.

I'm far more concerned about attempts to make it harder to vote before the election - the one drop box per county in TX, for example, then I am that any election was stolen.

Post reply on HN